From Crisis to Comeback: Employment Trends through the Pandemic
Have Atlanta jobs recovered from the pandemic? If so, what does that recovery look like? And how does Metro Atlanta compare to other major metropolitan areas?
Regional Snapshot: Exploring Aging Trends in Metro Atlanta
This May, we recognize the 60th anniversary of Older Americans Month!
The Economy: A Closer Look
A closer look at data from our Economy snapshot - specifically, home price appreciation in metro Atlanta.
Regional Snapshot: The Economy
The Atlanta economy is a dynamic one! Our March Regional Snapshot takes a look at a confusing and changing economic landscape nearly three years into the pandemic and with the threat of recession looming.
Where Are All These People Coming From (And Going To)?
Population migration to and from Atlanta: which metros are the "givers" and "takers" ?
Regional Snapshot: The Economy-An Overview for the New Year
There is a LOT going on in our economy. Wages and inflation are up, and so are housing prices and rents. While we have a lot of job openings, we also have a low unemployment rate. Our January Regional Snapshot takes a look at a confusing and changing economic landscape, at almost two full years into the pandemic.
Regional Snapshot: 2021 Metro Atlanta Speaks in Summation
Metro Atlanta Speaks...we have given you most of the rest (v.v. tools to view the information), now check out the best (summary, that is).
2021 MAS Regional Survey Updates are Out! Find out more here!
Results for the 2021 Metro Atlanta Speaks survey were released yesterday as part of the State of the Region Breakfast. This post compiles all the places you can go to learn more about the attitudes and perceptions about life in the 11-county area, from high-level overviews to data exploration dashboards.
COVID-19: Hospitalization and ER visits in 2020
Comparisons for hospitalizations and ER visits for the flu, heart disease and COVID-19 are less dramatically uneven than what we saw in our examination of COVID death data. But we still see that COVID-19 comes out on top when it comes to things that sent us to the hospital in 2020.
Just How Bad Was COVID-19 in 2020?
In 2020, COVID-19 rivaled heart disease – long our state's #1 killer – in terms of life lost and percent of deaths by cause (map shown). Not even the worst years of the flu come anywhere close.